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Entry: What's So Scary About Evolution?--For Both Left and Right, a Lot Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/whats_so_scarry_about_evolution#27259 Post contents: As Tom Fleming writes, "race is partly rooted in genetics and part social construction." The "part social construction" part means that the boundaries can be and are defined by social processes. Population geneticist LL Cavalli Sforza's work shows that the Victorian scientist's basic parsing of people into continental races was pretty accurate with the exception that American Indians are distinct enough to constitute a race. This shouldn't surprise. They were smart men and worked with lots of data and the phenotypes they used as data are ultimately manifestations of genotype. There can be and is perfectly valid and logical reasons for defining the boundaries here or there. Most of the boundaries were placed where they were for good reason. Sent at: 2008 12 01